Industrial Policy: The Coevolution of Public and Private Sources of Finance for Important Emerging and Evolving Technologies

by Kenneth I. Carlaw

Dismissing industrial policy because 'governments cannot pick winners' is counter-productive. This Element studying selected major innovations illustrates the fact that virtually all major new technologies have been developed by a synergetic cooperation between the public and the private sectors, each doing what it can do best. By examining how R&D is financed, rather than where it takes place, the authors show that the role of the public sector is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009227483
• ISBN13: 9781009227483
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"